week 1 - 26.09.22

drainage and electricity in spain

30 September, 2022

To determine what I will need to include on my side therefore design the site I needed to find out more about the drainage and electricity systems in Spain.
I found a pdf legal document about the development of Spain’s water system what needs to be put in place and why, the site is Water | Free Full-Text | Sustainable Drainage Practices in Spain, Specially Focused on Pervious Pavements | HTML (mdpi.com).

After reading through this document, I found out that almost 100 percent of Spain’s population has access to clean drinking water, in theory the site should be able to tap into water supply to the town above. However, on 93 percent of rural towns have access to a sewage network that leads to the sea. Since the site is in very far away from the coast with not many major cities nearby. However, I looked around the town above on google maps and found man holes and drains in the ground meaning there is a working sewage system that the site can link to.

As for the electricity I couldn’t find a specific document stating the condition of Spain’s electricity connections. So, I looked at nearby villages to la Puebla de Fantova that have holiday homes to see what they supply and looked at google maps to find electricity lines in the village next to the site. Both parts of my researched proved that there is sufficient electricity so they will just need to be extra connections made to the village electricity to reach the la coma site.

TDP3 Week 1 miro

26 September, 2022
Miro research

For our first week of lessons the class was split into pairs to find information about the site Diseminado Afueras Puebla Fantova, Huesca, Spain. This included the average weather on the site through out the year, drainage, soil conditions and anything else anyone can find information on.

I found this very useful as I was able to collaborate with my peers to share our ideas on the site where we could look for information and different perspectives of what information is needed to complete full feasibility study.

Once we found the information in our pairs, we posted it to Miro so we could collaborate as a team. This was very interesting as we were all looking for similar information but found different websites and ways the information about the site has been presented.

As shown in the pictures below the weather conditions was a priority for the whole class when starting the feasibility study. I believe this is because once you figure out the average weather pattern through out the year and the levels of the site you can make a calculated assumption of the soil conditions and how much drainage the site would need. Form that points on the type of foundations needed as well as the positioning of the site can be determined to provide optimal stability of the building and use of the solar energy, for lighting, heat and electricity.

From the information provided by myself and my peers it shows that:
  • Daylight hours range between 9 to 15 hours with temperatures ranging between 2- 32 degrees Celsius shortest/coldest being December longest/hottest being July
  • Average rainfall through out the year is 480mm as it only rains between 4 to 5 days per month during the year
  • Access to the site is minimal with one estate road to the southwest
  • Electricity to the site is feasible as there is a pylon to the south and a town to the north with a population of 108
  • It is likely a propane tank or biomass fuels will need to be supplied for heating the buildings on site
  • Due to the site being 706 m above sea level there is a barely any chance of the site flooding
  • There is a 30m level difference on the site so will need to be incorporated into the design and drainage of the site
  • The site is currently an olive and almond tree farm so soil conditions should be dense and workable with foundations of the buildings
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